London, Jarrolds, 1957.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 18s.
A motorcycle tour through Switzerland and Italy to the continent of Africa.
Modern Literature
London, Jarrolds, [1938].
First edition. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, later issue ('7th thousand') priced 2/6.
Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Great jacket artwork.
Modern Literature
London, Jarrolds, [1929].
First edition. 8vo. Original light blue cloth decorated and lettered in black. Dust-jacket.
Issued for Jarrolds' 'Jay Library', uncommon in the original Youngman Carter dust-jacket.
Sexuality & Erotica
London, Jarrolds, [1932].
First edition, first printing. 8vo. 39pp. publisher's catalogue dated Spring 1932 at end. Original blue cloth, dust-jacket, correctly priced at 7/6.
A tale of sacred & profane love, by an author best known for his science fiction, adventure stories, and historical fiction books for children. This definitely a more adult venture.
Detective Fiction
Goodchild (George) and C.E. Bechhofer Roberts. The Jury Disagree
London, Jarrolds, 1936.
'First cheap edition' (i.e. second edition). 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
A compelling 'true crime' collaboration between prolific crime fiction author George Goodchild and the biographer and critic Bechhofer Roberts, a.k.a. 'Ephesian'. First published in 1934.
Detective Fiction
London, Jarrolds, [1927]. First edition thus. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6. Although originally published in 1909, this later edition is quite superb in the original dust-jacket.
War, Invasion & Spy
A Story of Modern Secret Service
London, Jarrolds, 1938.
First edition. 8vo. Original oatmeal cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Attractive first edition of this autobiographical work by the genuine female spy Marthe Mathilde McKenna née Cnockaert, awarded British, French and Belgian honours for gallantry for her espionage work, and subject of the 1933 film I was a Spy.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Jarrolds, [1937].
First edition. 8vo. Original oatmeal cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Attractive first edition - the British Empire is in danger after a dubious disarmament policy, with the threat of war looming large on the horizon...
Weird & Supernatural
London, Jarrolds, n.d..
Early edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 2/- at spine with further 1/- price to upper panel.
Uncommon edition of the title that introduced the character of Moris Klaw, an eccentric and insightful 'dream detective'. Klaw solves mysteries using a curious method known as 'odic thought transference', which involves him sleeping on a cushion or item related to the crime to receive impressions about the events. Nice example of relatively unknown Youngman Carter artwork.
Detective Fiction
London, Jarrolds, 1935
First UK edition (Translation of Chateau en Limousin published in Paris in 1934). 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Suzanne Marguerite Tinayre was a prolific French novelist and woman of letters. This was her only crime novel and is listed in Hubin.
It concerns the celebrated case of Madame Lafarge and whether she really murdered her husband nearly a century earlier.
Very scarce with only one copy cited by COPAC in the British library.